5.5 hot, or 8 cold…
I am building my trailer this winter for a 8gpm belt drive machine. I figure I can add hot later. I have everything except the PW and pressure hose and Surface Cleaner. I have a brand new 5x10 trailer with title tags and registration, tongue box, two tanks, holddown straps, float valves and bulkheads and all the fittings, all supply hoses and reel. State issued business license and currently quoting liability insurance. I will be doing residential three-story+ and concrete surfaces, launching late spring, I hope.
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Awesome!!! I’m building my system on paper buying in may. Designing website now.
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I’m trying to decide between those 2 myself
It’s a tough one
All depends on your target market
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I want to keep commercial parking lots an option
Residential for me starting out
Me too but feel a strong need for hot water
We rent hot water machines when necessary. We make more money on residential with cold water 90% of the time. Even apartments, a mega church, a factory, and multiple other large commercial jobs used cold water and worked beautifully.
If someone gave me the option of an 8 gpm cold or 5.5 gpm hot, I’d take gpm over heat any day.
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Do you clean parking lots with cold? You personally
Not enough money in parking lots and I don’t care for overnights. We can do 2-3 houses per cold water machine at an average ticket of $400 per house per day. Concrete is boring and doesn’t wash fast enough to be profitable the way houses are.
Go on YouTube and search the forum. The concrete guys making money are using 11 gpm, 17 gpm, and higher machines and doing 2-3 gas stations or restaurants, every night. Everyone is trudging along behind a surface cleaner at .10 a square foot and taking all day to do it. If each machine or truck isn’t doing $800-1200/day it’s not producing it’s potential.
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Yeah, but that is only true if you have all of the work that a truck can do. A lot of guys don’t have a full schedule…so, that less profitable concrete is better than nothing.
I don’t like concrete either, but yesterday saw me on a job with 7800ft of concrete…7.5hrs start to finish…paid $1050…$140 per hr…I will take that for my week’s work…all I want for this week.
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8 cold. We have 3 of them. We also have a vertical HotBox that was installed after. From my experience the hot water is almost useless. (The wear and tear on your hoses from hot water) With the right Cleaning Solutions or detergents cold water does just fine. The only times I find hot water to be very useful is when we start a new project that has old gum. For the accounts that we maintain on a regular basis cold water does just fine to get up the newly disrespectfully spit gum on the floor.
But with no question the 8 gallon machine will be more efficient no matter what type of project you are taking on. It will open the door to taking on bigger projects that you may not see in the moment. Time is money the more water the faster you’re out.
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Thanks guys, I sure love this place. I’m going with the 8 cold, M5ds nozzle, 24 inch sc, 200 ft non marking, 4ft and 3 ft wand, small website, cards, flyers, and prayers. Just gonna get out there and hit it.
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LOL. if you want any cash tips take off owner.
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good luck, what type of vehicle to move your equipment?
You made the call I would have made
Its gonna be on trailer for now, pull in with my jeep
Ill take it off its just virtual sample card
